Kolkata: Nine days before the temblor struck Sikkim and Bengal on Sunday, Dipak Ghosh, emeritus UGC fellow¸ had an uncanny feeling.

In the wake of Sunday's 6.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked large parts of north, east and northeastern India and neighbouring Bangladesh and Nepal, the northeastern States are reviewing their pre

The deadly May 22 tornado in Joplin, Missouri caught many residents unprepared, partly because warnings issued that day were met with complacency and confusion, a federal report said on Tuesday.

L'Aquila, Italy: A group of Italian scientists went on trial on Tuesday for failing to predict an earthquake that killed more than 300 people in central Italy in 2009 despite signs of increased sei

The state disaster management department would struggle to cope with an earthquake on the scale of Sunday’s temblor near the Sikkim-Nepal border, said the minister in charge, Javed Ahmed Khan, on M

Livestock and Rural Development Minister Arumugam Thondaman will inaugurate the landslide prevention project in the Nuwara Eliya district today (02).

Pakistan has failed to invest in prevention measures since last year`s floods that killed 1,750 people and is vulnerable to another disaster this monsoon season, Oxfam said on Tuesday.